I was too slow at the gate. I will watch for a post on this topic, and next time will drop what I'm doing and just go ahead and sign up without any excuses such as, "well I'll just finish this first." Famous last words . . .

hi there,
right now there's actually a known issue on our end where in some cases, ads and keywords are running even though the adCenter tool says they're pending. so sanity, it's possible your ads might be running, if they are you should see impressions and clicks in the tool.

i don't have an eta on this, but we're working to fix it, and i'll let you know here when this is resolved.

also - eKstreme - we will have a publisher version of adCenter at some point, but i don't have a timeline yet. i'll let you know here when i know anything.

It's difficult to tell who really is on the other side of a forum post.

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hi everyone,
i have some MSN adCenter news to share with you. if you have any questions, please post them, and i'll try to answer as well as i can.

tomorrow (Wednesday, March 22) we'll be be raising adCenter traffic levels to 70%.

if you're an adCenter customer, you should start to see an impact to your campaigns beginning Thursday, March 23, however it may take several days to reach 70%. also, your budget may be impacted due to the increase, and, as more traffic is directed to adCenter, you should expect a decrease in traffic from your Yahoo! Search campaigns.

let me know if you have any questions. i'm excited to be part of this forum.

hi again everyone,more news for you...we have a release planned for tomorrow, 4/18/2006. during the release (6PM - 11PM Pacific time), adCenter will be unavailable. here's the official word:

This should not affect your existing data or campaigns, which will remain live during this time. However, you won't be able to access your account or its features while we update adCenter. We encourage you to make any needed immediate changes to your account beforehand.

if you're a current adCenter customer you should have received an email from us with some details about what's coming in this release. the item i'm most excited about is that you'll be able to copy and paste a list of keywords instead of typing them manually - i know this is a big pain point for a lot of you.

another thing we've heard from a lot of clients is that the parameters are a bit confusing, so the naming convention will be changed to be more intuitive. {param1} will be labeled Destination URL, and params 2 and 3 will be labeled Dynamic Text.

ok that's it for now, this is already a bit long. let me know if you have any questions, i'll be around.